Shut the valve and let the yankee bastards freeze in the dark

Solid post. I hope that the frustration has the Jindal crowd thinking about it. All we have to do is shutdown the pipelines that carry gasoline and diesel to the East Coast and we will see BHO reversing course in a hurry.

Terrible post

How is going to Green Energy causing a slow death?

Royalties for LA will be changing soon. Its mindboggling how a state with so much oil coming through is one of the poorest and ranks next to last in nearly every category.

Oil and Gas HAS destroyed our wetlands. From GIS Data 11% of landloss alone can be attributed to cutting of canals. You factor in the the mosquito effect, and old process of leveeing canals and causing compaction behind its near 47%. Yes leeving the Miss River has contributed to wetland loss too.

Oil is the main economic engine in Louisiana. Much like steel was for up north and auto manufacturing plants. Hundreds of thousands loss their jobs when the steel industry collapsed. Many more hundreds of thousands when the auto industry went belly up. These places were near ghost towns 2-3 years when the recession was in full swing. Louisiana stayed relatively unscathed during that period because of the 191Billion federal handout from Katrina.

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How is going to Green Energy causing a slow death?

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If you don't see this, there is no hope for you.

Although it is probably better phrased as the DESIRE for Green Energy. They know their pie in the sky renewable energy will never be economically viable on the scale they want to apply it, so they are going to legislate the viability out of fossil fuels with cap and trade.

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They know their pie in the sky renewable energy will never be economically viable on the scale they want to apply it, so they are going to legislate the viability out of fossil fuels with cap and trade.

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Exactly. And that leaves us where? (hint-think about what happened to Greece when everyone suddenly realized they didn't manufacture anything anymore)

Actually, La. receives not a penny from oil that flows through the pipelines. Whether the oil is imported and sent through the loop pipeline or through other pipelines with domestically produced oil, La. receives zero. The revenues that La. receives is the royalties from oil and gas produced within the state borders on state own lands and water bottoms. The state, Parishes, and political subdivisions such as school boards and levee districts receive some of their revenue from those royalties as well.

What we have to first calculate is how much of these revenues are we able to withstand losing and for how long, before we would threaten to shut the valve. My point was, calculating those revenue losses against what could be substantially more losses, with the moratorium or any other WH initiatives to curtail oil exploration.

La. needs to make a bold move. A emergency safety inspection could be proposed and proceded with by the Gov. Now it could be a game of chicken to see who blinks first, the state or the President. The President who is accustomed to chicago style shakedowns will understand his predictament if La. takes this course. Congress blinked, when we threatened to object to the lease sale. I think they would blink to this threat as well.

La. needs to stand up for itself. We are portrayed as oh poor La. with their hand out. With the Oil that has been mined from this state, we should have the best of everything. Sadly our politics have sold us out over the years. Just as the tea party has awakened the population to the abuses of govt spending and lack of common sense in its policies, the people of La. should as well be awakened to the abuses we have withstood for decades and demand changes as to how we should be treated in terms of our environment and our mineral resources.

The thing is that Calif, Fla and other states with oil and gas resources watch how La. has been taken advantage of and are just waiting till all the experiments and abuses to La. have been exhausted and new standards are met before they allow drilling for oil off of their states. When their resources are finaly mined, they will make sure that they get what is right for their environment and their royalties. By the time that happens, La. will be left holding the bag with depleted resources and a destroyed environment

I like the idea, we need a bold move

Need an example...Just look at Alaska and the royalties both the state and individuals receive from the oil and gas industry.

Let's stick to offshore shite, yall keep my onshore wells/pipelines out of this pissing match.

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Great, La. Tx, MS, AL, GA,and any other southern state that wants to join us can and we all file for secession, nationalize the oil industry and we begin the war all over again. The Civil war should have been 2/3 anyway. La. can sink barges in the MS river and flood all those yankee states. We would have one of the largest navies in the world. You yankees can go find your oil with whatever dictator or islamic country you wish to do business with. That is what Lord Obama wants anyway. We really dont need anything those northern states produce since they sent all their jobs overseas already. We have oil which they do need. Our currency could be based on the price of oil, called the petro dollar. Without Oil all other forms of currency is worthless. Try putting your windmills on top of your cars and wait for the wind to blow.

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You do realize with live in the UNITED States of America, dipshit?

Or are you still pissed that the south lost the civil war?

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I may be wrong, but the federal government can not tell a state what type of commerce the state must allow.

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Apparently with the globalization of the modern world, with no true economic isolation, the Commerce Clause can be interpreted to apply to anything.

I did find it humorous that he thinks that Obama should militarily strike down LA basically doing the same thing HE is doing to us, for overtly the same reasons.